OF THE PETROGRAD PROVINCIAL COMMISSAR 
FOR FOOD SUPPLY1
[21 January 1919]

Perhaps it is still possible to request that they hold it up in view of today's decisions2.

1 The Petrograd provincial food commissar, in his letter to the Military Food Supply Bureau, requested that districts be indicated and that representatives of Petrograd factory and plant organizations, being sent to the localities for the purchase of rationed products, be supplied with instructions.

2 By "today's decisions," V. I. Lenin apparently had in mind the Decree on the Procurement of Food Products, approved at a session of the Council of People's Commissars on 21 January 1919 (see "Decrees of Soviet Power," vol. IV, 1968, pp. 302–304).

# NOTE TO V. N. PODBELSKY1
[22 January 1919]

To P o d b e l s k y: why in 3 copies?
in 3 copies?
Measures against abuses of the t e l e g r a p h.

1 Written on the telegram of a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic P. A. Kobozev reporting on the beginning offensive of the troops of the 1st Army of the Eastern Front.

The telegram was sent to V. I. Lenin at 3 addresses: the Party Central Committee, the Council of People's Commissars, the Council of Defense, and also to 13 other addresses: the Supreme Council of the National Economy, to Sverdlov, Krasin, Stalin, to the authorized representative of Turkestan's representations, and others.

V. N. Podbelsky — People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR.